Viral video star attends Chiefs game after tough diagnosis

Cancer patient Jack Hoffman to need more chemotherapy

Jack Hoffman, whose touchdown at a Nebraska spring football game in 2013 warmed hearts all over the world, has learned that he will have to resume cancer treatments. That didn't keep him from coming to Kansas City to see a friend who changed his life.

A young boy who won hearts all over the world after a viral video -- came to Kansas City for Thursday night's preseason opener, despite getting another tough diagnosis this week.

Jack Hoffman was undergoing treatment for childhood brain cancer when he was given the chance to score a touchdown at the Nebraska Cornhuskers 2013 spring game. It was an opportunity made possible by friend Rex Burkhead, who now plays for the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Hoffman came to see his friend and the Bengals play preseason football at Arrowhead Stadium.

"He's been battling a brain tumor for about the last three-plus years," said Andy Hoffman, Jack's father. "He had a couple of brain tumor surgeries and weeks of chemotherapy."

Jack Hoffman isn't a boy of many words, but he does have strong feelings about childhood brain cancer.

"It sucks bad," he said.

"He was in remission as of October 2013, and as of just yesterday, we learned that he's going to need more therapy," Andy Hoffman said.

Before Jack begins more chemotherapy, the family made the trip from Nebraska to cheer on Burkhead.

"He's one of my best friends," said Jack Hoffman.

"Rex played for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, and about a month before Jack underwent his second brain tumor surgery, we reached out to the University so that Jack would have an opportunity to meet Rex," Andy Hoffman said. "Kind of as a bucket list thing."

That bucket list check mark turned into the friendship of a lifetime, and the spring game touchdown that the whole world got to share.

The Hoffman family started the Team Jack Foundation to help raise money for childhood cancer research.